Garden Classrooms

Mt. Zion Primary School

We want to provide students with an introduction to the various aspects of gardening, which includes:

discussion of where our fresh produce originates.

Living and non-living organisms

Composting

Hands-on learning experiences

Reusing, reducing, and recycling

Real life experiences

Many of our students are apartment dwellers and have little experience of the natural world. A school garden will help bring science studies vividly to life, and help the children feel more at home with and more connected to the world of nature.

Memminger Elementary School of Global Studies

Through hands-on interaction, the CACGP teaches the growing and preparation of 'real' food as well as the science behind these processes in order to foster and set in place lifelong, healthy eating patterns and reduce the risk of health-related diseases. The CACGP

Tohickon Middle school

We have four goals for this project. The garden will... a.allow our students to learn how to start and maintain an organic garden. b.provide our students with an opportunity to learn about gardening, a lifelong hobby. c.provide fresh produce to supplement our FCS curriculum. d. provide fresh produce for our local soup kitchen. The garden will allow our FCS department to teach their nutrition lessons right in the garden. The vegetables will be used by our FCS department in their day to day curriculum in teaching nutrition and in preparing meals.

Mariano Castro Elementary School

Expose as many children as possible through garden science to ecology. habitats, ethnobotany, nutrition, math, and living sciences. In teaching children we utilize two main school garden areas. One is a native California plant garden and the other a large12 bed edible planter box garden. This grant will allow for continued maintenance and improvements to our garden facilities

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Watkins Elementary School

The garden is central to success of our FoodPrints program, which aims to integrate hands-on learning about healthy, nutritious eating into DC elementary schools. For the past 4 years we have partnered with FRESHFARM Markets to involve Watkins students with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating fresh, nutritious, local foods in an effort to change their attitudes toward and willingness to eat those foods. We now have a large fenced in vegetable garden, a teaching kitchen, 3 paid part-time teachers, and a curriculum that supports the applicable learning standards.

Canyon Park Junior High

We used our grant to buy 24 yards of topsoil and garden tools for our school garden! We had 150 students shoveling and pushing wheelbarrows full of topsoil with the help of parents and master gardeners.  Every group of four 7th grade students shares a garden plot in which they design, plant and care for vegetables and flowers. We have a team of 8-10 Master Gardeners who come in to share their expertise as well as work alongside the students in the garden.

University of West Alabama Campus School

A Whole Kids Garden Grant to the UWA Campus School will provide the seeds, literally and figuratively, to grow healthy kids and communities in rural, west Alabama. Start-up funds for the proposed project will lay the foundation for a year-round garden and jumpstart a supplemental science curriculum for our students. Because the Campus School is an integral part of the University and community, the garden project will generate interest in healthy lifestyles in both our students and the community at large as a result of on-going outreach programming and volunteer opportunities.

Burbank Community Day School

The primary purpose of this garden is to teach students at the Community Day School sustainable gardening practices. The Community Garden will promote the formation and expansion of the community and the student relations. It develops the resources to develop a greener and healthier community. The garden will serve many educational purposes in reference to the production of nutritious foods, conservation resources; it will encourage research on the impact of community gardening and greening.

Briarlake Elementary

Over the last 5 years, we have created and maintained 360 degrees of garden and outdoor learning spaces at Briarlake Elementary. These are now a defining characteristic of our public elementary school, but requires ongoing investment and maintenance to keep them available for classroom use year round. Given the transition to newly adopted Common Core Standards, teachers would welcome the opportunity to purchase teaching tools that allow them to seamlessly integrate gardening into teaching the new curriculum.

Kennedy Alternative High School

The garden/greenhouse is used as outdoor/indoor classrooms for place-based experiential learning, with an emphasis on developing a model for learning entrepreneurial and vocational skills in sustainable agricultural with a newly-added aquaculture program and additional propagation space.

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